[
UK
/ɪɹɪkˈʌvəɹəbəl/
]
ADJECTIVE
- incapable of being recovered or regained
How To Use irrecoverable In A Sentence
- And most vivid do these scenes and people become when the vague and irrecoverable boy who walks among them carries a rod over his shoulder, and you detect the soft bulginess of wet fish about his clothing, and perhaps the tail of a big one emerging from his pocket. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
- Her past was, in his words ‘out of sight and hearing, beyond reach, largely irrecoverable.’
- One feels that certain things are irrecoverable because they are past.
- The privatisation roller coaster when everyone was encouraged to become a shareholder left many with irrecoverable losses.
- From the moment he commenced his turn the aircraft was almost immediately on its right wing tip and was irrecoverable.
- History shows that, once lost, the democracy it guarantees is irrecoverable.
- He added that this was the year for "a political showdown to rescue Japan from falling into an irrecoverable crisis. Japan Opposition Renews Calls for an Election Ahead of Consumption-Tax Debate
- Read it again, lingering this time on "just one more try" and "another irrecoverable day slips by. Review of The Best of It by Kay Ryan
- Yeo demanded that the government announce ‘in principle, compensation for farmers who suffer irrecoverable losses’.
- As to the other two points, it was not suggested that the cost of repairs might be irrecoverable or that it might be uneconomic to recover it.